Absquatch Wrote:
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> I regret that we have no stories from CAS
> reflecting his experiences as a step-father.
>
> Well, we do actually have at least one brief
> anecdote.
>
> Here's the relevant quotation from the CAS letter
> that I mentioned, above. The experience he relates
> may not be representative, but it is, I think,
> indicative:
>
> "Carol's children, two boys, thirteen and
> fourteen, respectively, and a sixteen year old
> girl, were violently opposed to me at the start,
> but have now become reconciled. Unruly puppies,
> all of them, but we get on, and oddly enough, they
> seem to obey me better than they do their mother
> when I am forced to exert authority. I must pause
> to chuckle over finding myself in a parental
> position--surely the last thing I ever bargained
> for, and more fantastic even than legal
> marriage".
>
>
> --CAS, letter to Donald Wandrei, August 12, 1955.

This is a very interesting note for me to read - I was unaware of 2 boys - the one I met was 16 at the time - and the girl was 18 - I never heard about a second boy - none of them were in evidence when I spent time with Clark and Carol until my last visit in "63" when I briefly met the two mentioned earlier - I knew there were kids about, but not at the house when I was there - Though I can well believe they, at 13, would have toed the line with Clark, who, as I mentioned in my memoir, had a "threatening" aspect about him -